The EFI myth
Obviously you haven't read all the posts on the net about those who are desperately trying to get their FI to work.
I have, it’s laughable. 99.999999% of these “issues” are operator error. Holley will tell you the same thing. Almost all of their returns end up having nothing wrong but for whatever reason people blame the equipment. There are real specific instructions about these systems that guys just can’t seem to grasp and they end up giving up because they think they know better or don’t trust what they are reading.
I will admit to having some difficulties with my system at first but every single time it was
100% self-inflicted due to poor wiring on my part - bad ground, connector stretched too tight and pulling apart the terminals, etc. Not one time did the equipment randomly “go bad” or “fail for no reason”.
Case in point. I recently helped a neighbor out with his EFI system that “wouldn’t run”. You should have seen the butchery and half-assed work he tried to get past me. His positive battery cable was literally hanging on by two strands of wire and he had random stuff spliced all over the place, no way he would have had success. He messed with it for a while and was ready to throw in the towel when all it took was better craftsmanship and attention to detail. Fixed the wiring and it fired up first try and ran better than it ever did with a carb.
I also think a lot of people tend to believe the advertising that it’s a 1-2-3 job and everything will be hunky-dory in a weekend. Maybe that’s true for some installs but generally it takes some amount of effort to get them to an optimal level. It’s the same with a carb., there’s usually some trial and error to get it running perfectly.
In my estimation it’s also best to get the peripheral equipment it was designed to be used with, especially the ignition. A large benefit of EFI is having the ability to control ignition timing. If you cheap out and try to make the system work with older ignition systems that don’t allow that feature you’re missing out on a major component of the conversion.
YRMV.
